A staggering 510 teams participated in the open leg of the online pre-qualifier, leaving 16 teams to fight in the closed leg for the two spots at the LAN qualifier at Dreamhack Stockholm.
The closed pre-qualifier will take place tomorrow, Sunday, September 6th, and will see the two top teams move on to the qualifiers at DH Stockholm for a chance at playing in the next major in Cluj.
Jacob "Pimp" Winneche and dignitas will be playing for a spot in Cluj
The closed pre-qualifier will feature the following teams:
dignitas
CPH Wolves
SK Gaming
Space Soldiers
Reason
EURONICS
Infinity
London Conspiracy
k1ck
PENTA
Dobry&Gaming
Null element HellRaisers
Los Jefes
Torpedo
MIXCAT
Wizards
The first round of games to take place tomorrow will be at 12:00 , kicking off the BO3 single elimination bracket.
On top of that, though, 6 more matches will be played between the losers of the Round of 16 of which the top 2 will be invited, with the losers of the the quarter finals and semi finals, to the second pre-qualifier.
Sunday, September 6th
12:00
dignitas
vs. k1ck
BO3
12:00
Reason Gaming
vs. Los Jefes
BO3
12:00
CPH Wolves
vs. EURONICS
BO3
12:00
PENTA
vs. Torpedo
BO3
12:00
SK Gaming
vs. Infinity
BO3
12:00
Dobry&Gaming
vs. Mixcat
BO3
12:00
Space Soldiers
vs. London Conspiracy
BO3
12:00
Null element HellRaisers
vs. Wizards
BO3
15:00
Quarter Finals
BO3
15:00
Placement Round #1
BO1
16:00
Placement Round #2
BO1
18:00
Semi Finals
BO3
HLTV.org have also teamed up with G2A.com to create a contest for this tournament, all you have to do is guess the two winners of the pre-qualifier in the comments below and a randomly selected user who guesses the winners will receive a €30 gift card for G2A. Comments/entries after the first match begins at 12:00 on Sunday, September 6th will not be counted.
Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche Age: 20 Team: Dignitas Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 550 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.63 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone